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174d

I like #Outlander #BloodOfMyBlood . It feels like I'm watching a live-action adaptation of #LynnKurland 's historical time-travel romance universe between the MacLeod and de Piaget clans.In addition, the stone circle reminded me of the Richard Garriot's #Ultima series.#TV #Drama

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I like #Outlander #BloodOfMyBlood . It feels like I'm watching a live-action adaptation of #LynnKurland 's historical time-travel romance universe between the MacLeod and de Piaget clans.

In addition, the stone circle reminded me of the Richard Garriot's #Ultima series.

Hmm… I should start watching the original Outlander too. 😅

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169d

I am excited to see the publication of advance articles in Samuel Beckett Today from a special edition based on a symposium about Samuel Beckett in Central Europe https://brill.com/view/journals/sbt/aop/issue.xml

I wrote about 'The Legal Dramas of Samuel Beckett: Copyright Law and Human Rights in the European Union'

https://brill.com/view/journals/sbt/aop/article-10.1163-18757405-tat00006/article-10.1163-18757405-tat00006.xml

Alexander Hartley wrote a piece about copyright from a different angle, 'Is Beckett’s Drama ‘Stopped’? Accounting for the Aesthetics of Theatrical Copyright' https://brill.com/view/journals/sbt/aop/article-10.1163-18757405-tat00005/article-10.1163-18757405-tat00005.xml

Anita Rákóczy has written about Károly Kazimir’s Opening Speech before the Hungarian Premiere of Waiting for Godot (1965) https://brill.com/view/journals/sbt/aop/article-10.1163-18757405-tat00007/article-10.1163-18757405-tat00007.xml

I look forward to seeing the final versions of some of the other contributions to the collection.

#copyright #EUlaw #EUpol #theatre #performance #drama #Ireland #SamuelBeckett

Picture of playwright Samuel Beckett

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That totally surprised me. One of the characters in #Wednesday S02 is a #Filipino. It's not obvious if you don't understand our language.

For Filipinos, you'll see it.

For non-Filipinos, look for a text message scene in S02E06, that's the character.

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151d

Emily Wilson Explores The Aeneid ’s Influence on the Contemporary Western World

“This ancient epic raises profound, provocative questions that are now more pressing than ever.”

https://lithub.com/emily-wilson-explores-the-aeneid-s-influence-on-the-contemporary-western-world/

Aeneid at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Aeneid

#books #literature #drama

Virgil Reading the Aeneid to Augustus and Octavia,[52] by Jean-Joseph Taillasson, 1787, an early neoclassical painting (National Gallery, London).

The painting illustrates an episode described by the ancient writer Suetonius. The poet Virgil is shown reading aloud from the Aeneid to Emperor Augustus, his sister Octavia, and members of the imperial household.

Virgil is seated at the left, in a pale robe, holding a scroll, his body inclined forward as he reads. The central focus shifts immediately to Octavia, who is collapsing, overcome with emotion. She is dressed in white and supported by attendants, her faint dramatizing the deep pathos of the scene. To the right, Augustus sits in a position of authority,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeneid#/media/File:VirgilAeneidVI.jpg

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Joanna Baillie (1762–1851) was born #OTD, 11 September. Plays on the Passions, a series of female-led comedies & tragedies, brought Baillie fame during a period when serious drama was in decline. Her 256th birthday was commemorated by a Google doodle in 2018

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https://doodles.google/doodle/joanna-baillies-256th-birthday/

#Scottish #literature #drama #theatre #WomenWriters #JoannaBaillie #18thcentury #19thcentury

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Allan Ramsay (1684–1758) – poet, playwright, founder of modern Scots writing, & with a claim to be the father of Romanticism – was born #OTD, 15 Oct
A 🎂 🧵

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🖼️ Allan Ramsay, 1684–1758, by William Aikman – Scottish National Portrait Gallery
(This portrait was owned by Sir John Clerk of Penicuik, who wrote on the back of the canvas: “Here painted on this canvas clout by Aikman’s hand is Ramsay’s snout”)

https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/3526

#Scottish #literature #drama #poetry #18thcentury #Romanticism

Portrait of Allan Ramsay (1684–1758), by William Aikman. Oil on canvas. Ramsay is clean-shaven, and looks out at the viewer with a half-smile. He wears a collarless dark green velvet coat, unbuttoned, and has an orange silk cloth wound about his head like an improvised turban.

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Professor John Corbett discusses Edwin Morgan’s translation of Rostand’s CYRANO DE BERGERAC – from our 2021 Schools Conference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0lp5t85x2g

#Scottish #literature #theatre #drama #translation #InternationalTranslationDay #Cyrano

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125d

“Somehow hearing the play in Scots gave Anglophone audiences an insight into Tremblay that had hitherto eluded them”

—Mark Fisher on MICHEL TREMBLAY: PLAYS IN SCOTS – Scots translations of 8 plays by the Quebecois playwright

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https://www.critical-stages.org/29/michel-tremblay-plays-in-scots-two-vols/

#Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #drama #theatre #Quebec #Tremblay #translation #InternationalTranslationDay

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“I’ll nae longer tolerate this climate of wholesale copulation, it’s costin me a fortune! And I’m tellin yow I’ll no huv ye footerin wi ma chauffeur, cos the place is gone tae hell and there’s a leemit tae ma forebearance!”

—from “Mr Puntila & his Man Matti” (1999) by Peter Arnott, translated from Bertolt Brecht
Published in SERVING TWA MAISTERS: Five Classic Plays in Scots Translation

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/serving_twa_maisters/

#Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #Scotstober #drama #theatre #translation

PUNTILA (Yells) Get them oot! (To EVA) I’m absent fer hauf an hour and the hale place gangs tae buggery. Aye, weel dae yow ken how come the cuddies are in ma claver? Cos the stableman’s shaggin the gairden quean, that’s how come. And how’s thon fourteen-month hutheron got baggit afore her time? Cos the lassie’s joab it is tae mind ma cattle is mixin her moggans wi the prentice boy, which disnae gie her leesure tae ensure ma prize bull isnae lowpin oan ma hiefers and committin random fornication wi onythin oan four legs, that’s how. Mind me tae huv a word wi the wee gairden quean, gin she’d kindly abstain from lowsin her scanties for five minutes, mebbe we’ll huv some tomatoes this year. There’s money in tomatoes, and I’ll nae longer tolerate this climate of wholesale copulation, it’s costin me a fortune! And I’m tellin yow I’ll no huv ye footerin wi ma chauffeur, cos the place is gone tae hell and there’s a leemit tae ma forebearance!

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Royal Shakespeare Company: Wendy & Peter Pan
21 October–22 November, Barbican Theatre, London

An exhilarating new take on a beloved classic myth of love, loss, redemption – & pirates. Ella Hickson’s darkly witty retelling of JM Barrie’s PETER PAN is directed by Jonathan Munby.

https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2025/event/royal-shakespeare-company-wendy-peter-pan

#Scottish #literature #Drama #theatre #PeterPan #adaptation #JMBarrie

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CFP: “Our three-voiced country”: 20th-century cross-currents in Gaelic & other Scottish writing
26–28 Jun 2026, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Skye

Proposals for papers are invited exploring literary interactions between Gaelic, Scots & English in poetry, drama, the novel, song, media, & education in the 20th century – deadline 2 Feb

@litstudies

https://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/co-labhairt-bhliadhnail-asl-2026/?lang=en

#Scottish #literature #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #Scots #ScottishLanguage #drama #novel #poetry #song #tv #film #education #media #mediastudies

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MGTV urban drama #OnMyWay

Based on the novel 致我那菜市场的白月光 (To My White Moonlight From The Vegetable Market) by 璞玉与月亮 (Pu Yu Yu Yue Liang)

Director: Li Mo (ROTP)

Cast: Zhang Jingyi Chen Jingke

Filming start: November

* Romance, FL growth story
@board
#cdrama #cdramas #cpop #drama ZhangJingyi #ChenJingke

Photo compilation showing Zhang Jingyi and Chen Jingke

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📚 Life of Pi by: Yann Martel

After a cargo ship sinks in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean, there are five survivors stranded on a lifeboat - a hyena, a zebra, an orangutan, a Royal Bengal tiger, and a sixteen year-old boy named Pi. Time is against them, nature is harsh, who will survive?

Based on one of the most extraordinar...

https://bookblabla.com/book/life-of-pi

#books #reading #libraries #performingarts #theater #playwritingdrama #european #drama

After a cargo ship sinks in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean, there are five survivors stranded on a lifeboat - a hyena, a zebra, an orangutan, a Royal Bengal tiger, and a sixteen year-old boy named Pi. Time is against them, nature is harsh, who will survive?

Based on one of the most extraordinary and best-loved works of fiction - winner of the Man Booker Prize, selling over fifteen million copies worldwide - and featuring breath-taking puppetry and state-of-the-art visuals, Life of Pi is a universally acclaimed, smash hit adaptation of an epic journey of endurance and hope.

Adapted by acclaimed playwright Lolita Chakrabarti, this edition was published to coincide with the West End premiere in November 2021.

Winner of the 2022 Olivier Award for Best New Play

"Life of Pi will make you believe in the power of theatre" (Times).

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Chen Yi bts posted by Song Weilong studio #SongWeilong #LoveForYou #宋威龙 #野狗骨头
 #cdrama #cdramas #cpop #drama @board

snaps of Song Weilong

snaps of Song Weilong

snaps of Song Weilong

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TV Series 诸事皆宜 / Zhu Shi Jie Yi, plan to produce.

Cast: #ZhouYiRan (周翊然 Actor) #DaiLuWa #YuChengEn #ChengXiao
Genre: Historical, Romance, Comedy
Broadcast: Hunan & Mango
Director: Guo Hao (Feud)
Screenwriter: Yang Yun Lin, Liu Zi Wei

21/11/25

#cdrama #cdramas #cpop #drama @board

collection of photos showing Zhou Yi Ran, Dai Lu Wa, Yu Cheng En, Cheng Xiao

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Dramas #GenerationToGeneration #QiaoChu shared new posters for #ZhouYiran 25th birthday.

#cdramas #cdrama #drama #cpop @board

promo showing Zhou Yiran

promo showing Zhou Yiran

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Nos cinemas: Confira os filmes que entram em cartaz nesta quinta (27).
- bsmnja
https://midianinja.org/nos-cinemas-confira-os-filmes-que-entram-em-cartaz-nesta-quinta-27-7/
#Cinema #Cultura #Assista #Audiovisual #Bilheteria #Biografia #Blockbuster #Cineninja #Cinebiografia #Cinemabrasileiro #Cinemanacional #Cinematogrfico #Circuito #Clssico #Clssicos #Comdia #Curta #Direo #Drama #Emcartaz #Estreia #Estreias #Filme #Gnero #Hollywood #Lanamento #Lanamentos #Longa #Narrativa #Noscinemas #Produo

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Lochhead’s Mary
26 March, Perth. £7.50/£5

Liz Lochhead’s Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off is one of the most iconic plays in modern Scottish theatre. This special event will reflect on Lochhead’s enduring influence on Scottish writing & identity

https://www.culturepk.org.uk/event/lochheads-mary/

#Scottish #literature #theatre #drama #LizLochhead #MaryQueenofScots #history #identity #ScottishIdentity

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#OTD in 1878.

Henry Irving's production of Hamlet, with himself in the title rôle playing opposite Ellen Terry as Ophelia, opens at the Lyceum Theatre, London (of which they have taken over the management). The tendency of actor-managers to emphasise the importance of their own central character did not always meet with the critics' approval.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet

Hamlet at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/1524

#books #literature #theatre #drama

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Act I, Scene IV by Henry Fuseli. Hamlet, Horatio, Marcellus, and the Ghost, on platform before the Palace of Elsinor.

This image is an engraving based on the work by Henry Fuseli, titled Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Act I, Scene IV. It illustrates a dramatic moment from William Shakespeare's play Hamlet. The scene shows Hamlet, Horatio, and Marcellus witnessing the ghost of Hamlet's father on the platform before the palace of Elsinore.

The ghost appears in armor, pointing dramatically, while the characters react in fear and awe. The dark, atmospheric setting emphasizes the tension and supernatural tone of the scene. Fuseli's composition captures the gothic and emotional intensity for which he is renowned.

This image is a painting by Eugène Delacroix, titled Hamlet and Horatio in the Cemetery (1839). It depicts the famous gravedigger scene from William Shakespeare's Hamlet, specifically Act V, Scene I.

In this pivotal moment, Hamlet reflects on mortality as he holds the skull of Yorick, the court jester he knew in his youth. The scene is set in a graveyard, with a gravedigger presenting the skull to Hamlet, while Horatio observes. The dramatic sky and earthy tones contribute to the somber and introspective mood of the painting, characteristic of Delacroix's Romantic style. This artwork is housed in the Louvre Museum.

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"We thought we believed in trial marriage. Nothing of the sort—trial separation! What marriage put asunder divorce has joined together."

#OTD in 1917.

Jesse Lynch Williams' Why Marry?, the first drama to win a Pulitzer Prize, opens at the Astor Theatre (New York).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Marry%3F

Why Marry? at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35389

#books #literature #theatre #drama

Nat Goodwin, an unidentified actress and Leonard Mudie in the 1917 play Why Marry. Date stamped Sept. 28, 1918.

The play was a comedic exploration of the institution of marriage, written by Jesse Lynch Williams. The actors are likely dressed in early 20th-century attire, fitting the time period of the play's production. The image was stamped with the date September 28, 1918, indicating either the date of publication or archival cataloging. The scene captures a moment of dramatic or comedic interaction between the characters.

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Voices from the Archives: Mary, Burns & Lochhead
29 Jan, Perth. Tickets £8.50/£6

A panel discussion examining 3 manuscripts, each offering a powerful lens on Mary, Queen of Scots:

📜 her final letter, written just hours before her execution
🪶 Robert Burns' poetic tribute “Lament of Mary, Queen of Scots”
⌨️ Liz Lochhead's bold reimagining in her play Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off

https://www.perthshireboxoffice.com/whats-on/voices-from-the-archives-mary-burns-and-lochhead

#Scottish #literature #history #MaryQueenofScots #poetry #drama

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#OTD in 1830.

The première of Victor Hugo's play Hernani in Paris elicits protests from an audience seeing it as an attack on Classicism.

Hugo had enlisted the support of fellow Romanticists such as Hector Berlioz and Théophile Gautier to combat the opposition of Classicists who recognised the play as a direct attack on their values.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hernani_(drama)

Hernani at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9976

#books #literature #drama

The "battle of Hernani"

Commissioned by Paul Meurice for the opening of the museum in 1903

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Victor_Hugo-Hernani(2).jpg

The painting depicts the famous theatrical and literary conflict surrounding the premiere of Victor Hugo’s play Hernani in 1830 at the Comédie-Française.

This event, known as the "Battle of Hernani," was a clash between supporters of Romanticism, led by Hugo, and defenders of classical French theater.

In the painting, the scene is likely set inside the theater, showing a chaotic and passionate audience. Young Romantics, including artists, poets, and writers, are depicted clashing with conservative critics and traditionalists.

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#OTD in 1924.

Seán O'Casey's drama Juno and the Paycock opens at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. It is set in the working-class tenements of Dublin in the early 1920s, during the Irish Civil War period.

It is the second of his "Dublin Trilogy" – the other two being The Shadow of a Gunman (1923) and The Plough and the Stars (1926).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juno_and_the_Paycock

#books #literature #drama #theatre

Poster for the 1930 film “Juno and the Paycock” (alternate title “The Shame of Mary Boyle”).

Since it was directed by Alfred Hitchcock and based on Seán O’Casey’s acclaimed play, the poster have been designed in the early sound era’s style, featuring bold typography and theatrical imagery.

A strong central image, possibly depicting key characters like Juno Boyle (a struggling mother) and Captain Boyle (her irresponsible husband).

A somber or dramatic color scheme reflecting the film’s serious tone.

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The Authorship Debate: Who Is the Real Shakespeare?

The Shakespeare Authorship Debate concerns the ongoing mystery as to the true author of the plays, sonnets and other works attributed to William Shakespeare of Stratford Upon Avon.

By Lauren Jones

https://www.thecollector.com/the-authorship-debate-who-is-the-real-shakespeare/

Shakespeare at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/65

#books #literature #drama

Portrait of William Shakespeare by John Taylor, edited.

The Portrait of William Shakespeare by John Taylor, commonly known as the Chandos Portrait, is one of the most famous and widely accepted depictions of the playwright. Created in the early 17th century, it is an oil painting on canvas and is believed to be the only portrait of Shakespeare painted during his lifetime.

The portrait features Shakespeare with a slightly receding hairline, dark, wavy hair, and a mustache and goatee.

He wears a black doublet with a white collar, and a gold hoop earring in his left ear, which was fashionable among Elizabethan gentlemen and artists.

His expression is calm and introspective, with dark eyes that appear to gaze directly at the viewer.

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